poison oak
March 12, 2005It’s a vine, it’s a shrub. It has three leaves, it has five. It’s green, it’s red. It looks dead, it’s alive.
In high school, my biology teacher sent us out to look for the variety in leaves. These were then smoothed out, and carefully pasted onto pages that were then hole-punched, and put in a binder. That was my first, and one of the worst cases.
